Improvement in rubber erasers



str ut Letters Patent N 93,823, dated' August 17, 1869.

IMPRovEMeN'r 1N RUBBER ERAsERs.

'.[he Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe seine.

To all whom it may concern l Be it knownthat l, SAMUEL D.,Hovnr, ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings, and Stateof New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Poeket-Erasers; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and Vexact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, ina-king partof this specicationnand to the letters 0f reference marked thereon, likeletters indicating like parts wherever they occur.

To-enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe it.

My invention relates to rubber used as al1-eraser of penor.penoil-marks;`aml i It consists iuso arranging'suclr rubber with acase lthat it can be shoved in or out at pleasure, and thus be carriedin the pocket, wit-hout danger of soiling it, as hereinafter explained.

Figure l represents my improved device ready for use.

Figure 2 represents the same, atta-climi to an ordinary woodlead-pencil.

Figure 3 represents the same closed, as carried in the pocket. 7

It has become customary, and is very convenient for 'business men, tocarry in their pocket a small piece of vulcanized rubber, to be used asan eraser, the most convenient and approved form vbeing` that of a smallroll. Then thus/ used, the rubber, by being .carried in the pocket, isvery apt to become more or less soiled, and then, when used, it smearsand soils the paper on .wliieli it is used. lt is to prevent this, andprovide a nice article as a' pocket-eraser, that my invention isintended.

In constructing my device, I first provide the rubber eraser, asrepresented by R of the drawings, and then provide for it a case, A.,having'a-,ring, B, connected to audoperating a slide inside, the rubberbeing connected to and moving- With the slide iu the same manner thatpen and pencil-cases are made, and as shown in the drawings.

This case Amay be made ot" a size just sullii-ient to contain the rubberwhen drawn in, as shown in iin'. 3, and extended in tig. l, or it may bemade longer, with' its opposite end left open, also, so that it can beslipped on to the end of an ordinary wood lead-pencil, as shown in tig.2. I 4

lhe case maybe made of metal, hard rubber, or an y other suitablematerial, and in any desired style to suit thefaucy.-

An eraser thus made is admirably adapted to the purpose intended, andcan be carried in the pocket, and kept clean and ready for use at anytime.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, is-

A pocket-eraser, consisting of the case A, with the rubber R', arrangedto slide therein, substantially as described, as a'new article ofmanufacture.

Y SAMUEL D. llOVEY.

Witnesses:

EDWARD ST. JOHN, W. FlsHEn.

